I love that it takes exactly 2.6 seconds for the portal to hit the moon and activate. The exact same amount of time it takes for light to get to the moon from Earth and back.
@@VOIDSenseMusic Yes, so 1.3 seconds for the shot to reach the moon (assuming it's travelling at the speed of light) and another 1.3 seconds for that information to reach Earth again
I love how GlaDos says that killing Chell is hard while putting her in front of thousand of Turrets, which shows how really GlaDos has a real appreciation for Chell and doesn’t want to kill her anymore, she just wants her gone
Chell was killed by those turrets, the ending points to Greek mythology where you’d wake up in a corn field with your best friend if you got to go to heaven.
Nick Dixon Or it’s just a cornfield in Michigan. Endings don’t always have to be so grim. Then again if this was around the time of the combine invasion Chell’s probably dead
"Carolyn deleted" Always struck me as dark, brutal, and so sad after getting to like the Carolyn side of GlaDOS. Basically like bringing out this feeling woman we've grown fond of and executing her in front of us.
This is probably the most saddest and sweetest endings to a game. Honestly there's nothing quite like it. It was one of the most satisfyng endings I've ever witness.
the end is questionable; Chell is stranded in the mid of nowhere in michigan. HL2 happenend during the underground events, so earth is overrun by combines
@@crack4184 in lore the 7 hours war was not pleasant to earth. if the combine crashed in hardest where the resistance was the most, then imagine former USA devastated within first hour and remained largely uncivilized until now (aka when Chell re-emerged from the depths) .
@@Nekiplex Well, Portal 2 year Is unknow, someone days that only days passed between Portal 1 and 2. Others says years and others says that happens at the same time with Half-Life 2. Also, in The 7 Hours War United States was destroyed and "erased" of the Earth, no one remain in there after the war, maybe only Xen creatures
GLaDOS: I can’t kill you. It is to hard. *puts chell in front of the biggest army of turrets in Aperature* *turrets start signing* Chell: are you ****ing kidding me?
she was obviously lying dude, she said that caroline memories maker her seen chell as a friend, but she know that caroline was her mother so by de facto glados is chell mom, and the part of her trying to act hard on chell and made her leave is because she loves her and doesnt want her to suffer
I think GlaDOS couldn't kill her because her coding had to put Chell through tests that had a solution, and Chell always found the way to sort them out. I don't think it was in her coding to just shoot her to death without any escapatory.
@@crashmania4685 Chell always found a Way to sort them out. GlaDOS knows that Chell had the possibility of Escaping them, which is how she could make the Traps in the First Place. That or she was able to go against her Programming.
GlaDOS probably assigned those turrets to be there before Wheatley took control on the main facility, just for some cases if GlaDOS was tired of Chell's shenanigans and she wanted Chell dead and lure her to the elevator -with a turkey leg dangling on the- -elevator's ceiling- . Also, Caroline was the only *unremovable* personality core GlaDOS has until now after those other personality cores who got incinerated. GlaDOS would let Chell die in Space and just continue living and testing with those Testing Initiatives GlaDOS made. But no, she didn't, because her consciences (Caroline) pushed her/self to save Chell. We don't know if Chell was actually the daughter of Caroline and Johnson or was just adopted but Caroline cares for Chell. GlaDOS (the robot) didn't knew that Caroline was inside her brain(?) so she didn't bother to threaten Chell with more deadly tests. But after GlaDOS was put into a potato, Caroline's consciences grew. (Maybe GlaDOS didn't have enough storage to process her own stuff in the potato because Caroline's consciences took over it) And after GlaDOS came back to her mainframe (The robot body), she found at that there is something lurking in her systems which was Caroline's thoughts and stuff. Which awoken Caroline's humanity and saved Chell. So, yeah, these are my guesses/explanations on why GlaDOS didn't kill Chell at the end because of Caroline.
The ending implies the combine was defeated. That’s because you can see a intact ecosystem when you leave Aperture. And the Combine drained earths oceans and destroyed the ecosystem of earth. So they either were defeated or left earth and it recovered.
For some reason id want to go back, not because of the surface(the surface looks super cozy) but because I'd feel more home and special at the facility.
@@blazingshadow2669 Definetly not. At the end of portal 1 GlaDos warns Chell several times of the combine. „I have an infinite capacity for knowledge and even I don’t know what is going on out there.“
This ending song almost feels like an end of the Valve we all loved. Honestly, I would be happy if this is their final story-driven single-player game. I know we still want HL3, but I won't hold my breath for that to happen. This is the end of an era. Valve Software 1998-2011.
@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 wrong. its confirmed to be never a thing. all of the writer already left and there's not even ANY slight of leak / clue from the writer, at least compared to L4D3 rumour with potential assets HL3 is officially dead after the writer wrote the actual ending of HL universe
Gonna paste my relevant comment here: I just realized something: it is possible that in the ending, glados DID kill chell. It is a common folklore belief that when you die, you are serenaded and released into a field accompanied by your best friend. We see this exact thing happen. Directly after several guns are pointed at chell.
@@seanrobinson-old-4463 That's a headcanon that is far-reaching and completely turns the entirety of the game upside down. It would completely kill GLaDOS' character development, because it's been confirmed that she didn't actually delete Caroline, who was the source of GLaDOS' empathy in the end. Also, yeah, that entire song at the end is about *not* killing Chell, and setting her free with the hopes that she won't feel so bad anymore, which are the lyrics in the [REDACTED] part of the credits lol. Let's not reduce GLaDOS to that. She deserves more credit lol. It's literally the whole point of the ending.
4:20 always makes me cry, just the music slowly rising to a final climax as the elevator ascends through the facility up through the ruined portions and then to the top.
It's even sadder when you read the translation. My dear child... Why don't you walk far away? So far away from Science! My dear, dear baby... Ah, my beloved! Ah, my dear! Ah, my dear! Ah, my little girl! Oh dear, my dear... GLaDOS, aka Caroline, is saying goodbye to her daughter, Chell. She wants her to stay as far away from her as possible because she's programmed to test and the only way to keep her safe is by sending her to the surface.
@@TechMaestro01 I thought it was maybe like Caroline’s mother after Caroline (glados) got transferred into glados if you don’t understand what I mean there is glados lore and stuff so yea
Dude that's like my favorite part!!!! This dramatic ascension to the surface. THE SURFACE. Seeing the walls and lights of the facility rapidly move downward shows that this entire facility highly esteems you and rightfully so. Everything rapidly descending before your eyes represents how far you've come and progressed through the facility, as what Chell has done all her life. And the SONG. Even if you don't know what the words mean, I feel like anyone in Chell's position would just naturally hear this perfect song playing in their head. But once you realize what the words are saying?!!!! WOW. Whoever said "Video games aren't an art form because they're hollow" straight up shouldn't be allowed to vote.
“Killing you, is hard.” This isn’t because Chell overpowers Glados. This is because Glados has a deep connection for Chell. She could have killed Chell in space or let those turrets turn her into bits, but she didn’t. We really don’t know what causes the feelings and affection that the android has for her because of the fact that she desperately wants to remove any sort of Caroline’s past. Yet at the same time her motherly instincts wanted her and wants her to be ok. Glados is the most complex character I have encountered. The simultaneous feelings of both understanding and feeling connected to her at the same time as hating her so much is achieved through such excellent writing.
That's what I wanted to say. Glados is a super intelligent AI who is constructed for pleasure-drived human-killing crazy science experiments. But she also has memories as her original, a human.. With every episodes she keeps restoring her humanity but remains as a machine ayway. Her contradictory behaviors toward Chell evokes the tension, with some odd saddness and lovable feelings to us. Her complexity is unique. I really love her. Glados is one and only character in he entire game history and will be.
My personal theory is that she only saved chell so that the relief that she got if she survived (or the sadness when she died) could be used to find Caroline. The reason she didn't just kill Chell with turrets is because Chell has fucked with her plans so many times that she is unsure if it will actually work, and decides she doesn't want to give Chell a chance to blow her up a third time.
Yeah, the moon bit was so clever. The way they kept mentioning the moon dust throughout the game and then in that final moment seeing the moon itself through the collapsed roof. I'll never get that feeling again, when I first realised I knew what needed to be done. Shoot the moon! Beyond epic. Probably the greatest game ever made.
at first, i thought they were just gonna shoot me, and then they started singing, i thought that it would be like a scary movie and i would die when the music stopped
I so hate the fact that even over 12 years later portal 2 is still the best 5 hours spent on a game I've had and will probably ever have. Dude, the game is such a good balance of all aspects yet being compressed in just a few hours (I haven't done multiplayer because no friends lol), can we get a single game like this please?
I geniunely feel bad for Wheatley. Wish he didn't have to go to space with that core. If only all the cores made it in here with him, maybe he would have someone to talk with. For example, the core with a green eye. It can talk quite normally.
"Its been fun, Don't come back" This was valves way of saying, nothing else will likely be made Edit 1: (Yes i know they tried to make a portal 3 in VR, Yes i know half life Alyx was out, but wheres the heavy update?) Edit 2: Guys stop replying I made an incorrect prediction aight
Ethan Gilbert Actually there are some portal 3 rumors... www.google.com/amp/en.yibada.com/articles/amp/138077/20160707/left-4-dead-3-left-4-dead-3-gameplay-left-4-dead-3-release-portal-3-portal-3-release.htm?client=safari Sorry it's a really long link
Realizing that the implication here is that Caroline spent years and years hiding so that GlaDOS wouldn’t notice that she was in her brain, but for just a moment she gave into her emotions to try and save you; which allowed GlaDOS to find and kill her. She basically sacrifices herself for you.
Nah the Caroline part of her wasn't deleted, I guess the "Caroline deleted" was a way to insentivise Chell to leave and not come back. GlaDOS is still the same.
I feel like people underappreciate Wheatly perfecting planning how to beat you in both not making the same mistakes and booby trapping the only way to resolve the stalemate
yeah but if you do nothing, chell could come up with an idea, because she is the only one that survived. Throwing bombs at her, would keep her busier and prevent her to cellect herself
This game has a very twisted ending. When I saw the four turrets facing me I was like " GLaDOs you lying piece of scrap metal". Then when they started singing I was relieved.
There is a popular theory floating around that those turrets did kill Chell in the elevator. Her seeing them sing and the grass outside was simply a hallucination as her brain was dying.
The whole "happy ending was a dream and the story actually ended at the depressing part" is an old theory that get attached to a lot of stories with ambiguous endings.
I feel bad for Wheatley. GLaDOS' power literally went to the poor guys head. He wasn't programmed to handle that level of control, so it's only natural that he went berserk. That's why, as soon as he's disconnected from that power, he immediately wishes he could take back everything he did.
Also, GLaDOS said she'd heard voices all her life. It could be that these same voices were tempting Wheatley and he just didn't have the sense to question them.
@@textexadecimal9340 The voices were the dampening cores from number one and they were the voices tempting GLaDOS to not kill everybody by flooding the enrichment centre with deadly neurotoxin until you destroyed the cores letting her have the ability to flood the enrichment centre with a deadly neurotoxin.
@@psychoumbreon12 Ok, I think you're right. What gets me, though, is how quickly she snaps back to evil when she's returned to power (of course she did express that she was too low on power for any intense thought).
@@annarubinchik9591 kind of, they were the things corrupting wheatly to make the core transfer from him to glados possible again. but they also made him more dangerous.
The incredible part about this, is that if you pay close attention to the opera, it talks about how Chell ''Won't go away from science'' about how she's her ''beautiful darling'' then you realize GlaDOS knows that Chell is Caroline's daughter, and so, her's, and she's singing her a farewell lullaby. This game is such a masterpiece, they don't make them like this anymore.
It's like a mother who wants her child to step away from something that killed her. The mother wants her to leave science, but the Glados part is in denial and keeps on testing her, while also trying to murder her. "stay away from science my child". It's a destructive thing really.
Caroline is definitely not Chell's mother. Chell is an orphan, and Caroline was turned in to GLaDOS long before Chell even existed. I find it more touching anyway if GLaDOS is an AI that simply came to care for a human on her own and not because she felt some familial obligation.
@@Ghost-kt9et actually is fairly popular fan theory is that caroline had an affair with rat man and that baby was chell (or possibly they dated before she was with cave and she got pregnant). Anyways, its pretty clear that chell is Carolines daughter, with the easter eggs and french turret song it doesnt become much more clear.
Tiffany The Thug People see what they want to see. It's just that though, a *fan theory* , and the reason it's so popular is because people love dramatic twists and also can't make sense of GLaDOS having any kind of fondness for Chell without there being a familial tie. For some reason it's hard for everyone to believe that an AI could simply develop an attachment to a human. The song doesn't confirm anything because GLaDOS' voice actress herself said she just scrapped together some of her bad high school Italian and to not read too much in to the lyrics; The "my sweet baby" (or whatever it was) line people always point to to prove that Chell is her daughter isn't actually literally meant to mean "my child", but is a general term of endearment (we even use "baby" in english to address our significant others). Once again, it makes GLaDOS' character development far more meaningful if she developed the feelings for Chell ON HER OWN and not because she was Chell's family in another life.
4:10 I get shivers every single time. The song conveys emotion so well, I always think of the whole series and the emotion that shot through me every time I played the game. It's as if everyone at Valve was thanking you for playing the game and as the elevator rises you know the game is coming to an end and you feel nothing but bliss. At least that's how I felt it and it was honestly the most beautiful ending to a game I have ever seen.
It was the feeling of " I'm....finally going home! I am free!" This is one of the few games that bring tears to my eyes and it's difficult for me to cry. The cube thing at the end made me laugh as well.
If you translate the song into English, you'll find that it's a love song from a mother to a daughter. Along with much other tid-bits and such from the game, speculation and rumor has it that Chell is Caroline's daughter. I don't think GLaDOS actually deleted Caroline.
-Pao for those who dont speak italian, these are the english lyrics Dear beautiful, my beautiful darling. My child, in the estimation of the estimation. To my dear, farewell! My dear child, why do not you walk far away from science? My dear, my dear child. My Lovely. My dear. My dear. To my little girl. A dear, dear to me!
Hearing Wheatley panically and hopelessly shout "Grab me, Grab me, Grab me! Grab meeeeeeeeeee..." makes me kinda sad. Isolation is probs my biggest fear
@@xvx_cooldude69_xvx43 That's because GladOS' core corrupts anything that is plugged into it. You'll realize that when he first gets in the mainframe he starts glitching out and then becomes WheatOS.
It's even more heart breaking when you learn that GLaDOS, aka Caroline, is Chell's mother. When translated, the song says, My dear child... Why don't you walk far away? So far away from Science! My dear, dear baby... Ah, my beloved! Ah, my dear! Ah, my dear! Ah, my little girl! Oh dear, my dear... The plot goes deeper, but I'll leave that for you to dig up. Unless you want me to tell you everything.
The space bit is one of, if not my favorite, moments in any piece of media. The voice acting is phenomenal. The "I already fixed it, and you are *not* coming back." and "Grab me, grab me, grab me!" gets me every time.
I know right? The way he says "Grab me! Grabe me! Grab meeeeeee!" is just so heartbreaking, you know? He may be an asshole but leaving him in space to be orbited by the space cube is just a little too cold.
@@captainfunrock Here's an even funnier fact: Chell and Gordong Freeman from the Half-Life franchise are voiced by the same person. Yes, one person voiced two completely different characters of different genders and NO ONE noticed anything wrong. That's true acting.
Y’Know, everyone always talks about how Wheatley and the Space Core are floating through space, but no one ever talks about how Rick the Adventure Core flies through the portal before anyone else. Poor neglected Rick.
There is two refernences to myths and popular culture. 1.it isn't over till the fat lady sings And 2. It was said in Ancient Greece, when you die, you appear in a wheat field with your best friend
To support this: the ending of portal 1 shows chell outside the aperture lab in a parking lot,but when chell goes out of the lab a second time its turned into a field. CONFIRMED
@@zainawad5483 its not like there is only one tunnel to go up . and there is fact that is been quite thousand years or more from the portal 1, and like some people think that the apocalypse has been end so might be human start a new day . but yeah who knows maybe get confirmed when half life 3 realese that fucking take 5 more years :'v
I think it's probably a pretty safe assumption to say that I think the central core Mainframe that Wheatley got plugged into was probably in itself corrupted. Therefore it corrupted whatever core was plugged into it. That's why GLaDOS was so rational and helpful when she was in the potato, and that's also why Wheatley went crazy when he was plugged into it, but then went back to normal and genuinely said he was sorry when he was disconnected and left in space. GLaDOS resetting everything to keep it from blowing up probably purged the corruption from the Mainframe which is why she's fine after we wake back up and let's us go.
Or there is something called character development. Plus if you were a potato, you would also be nice to anyone around you. And if you ended up isolated in space for life wouldn't you also feel sorry for what you've done? The only thing that corrupted Wheatly was the power itself, not some mainframe bug. Glados probably really went through some character development while in the potato. And after all you are useless to her at this point, why use energy to kill you?
@@andreigirjoaba360 Maybe. Power was definitely a part of what drove Wheatley insane. I still think A.I. corruption was a factor as GLaDOS was completely corrupted when we switched her. Theorizing is such fun, yeah?
Well GlaDOS goes back to testing after the story in the co-op, what she does with the test subjects in the vault is unknown, maybe dejected releases them all. Or wakes them and forces them to continue testing
To be fair weatley was going to let you go he just wanted a few more minutes in control of the facility and if chill would’ve just said something she could’ve arranged a deal were he stays but she leaves but then glados had to open her stupid little mouth
I mean, i always thought it was corrupted. since when you plug in corrupted cores, it doesnt start off at 25%, but 50%, and each core adds 25%. So its safe to assume it was already corrupt before adding more cores.
After all these years I still find it amazing how much emotion they can convey with such simple designs. Both Glados and Wheatley is basically just an eye and they still emote so well.
Griffin the black ice dragon “You idiot, turn left.” “Are you this dense? Turn right.” “Now i have to recalculate the nearest destination for you again..” “Oh, it’s you..” “You monster, go back.” “Keep straight.”
Portal 2 really was the full package for me. It expanded on every element of the first game in so many fantastic ways. It was more difficult, had more story, more character, more comedy, more challenges, more gameplay mechanics, etc. And all of it worked. Nothing felt tacked on. All of it was meticulously thought out. And then this ending... Holy shit. One of my absolute favorite games of all time. Had a blast playing it again after all of these years and it certainly won't be the last time.
I agree so much. I don't get the people who say the game dragged on or that the gameplay loop was basically identical to the first game. It had a far more solid story, that as you said, expanded on every element of the original game, it was by all definitions a perfect sequel.
@@gnostic2815 You don't need to be a "gamer" to play a puzzle game. If you haven't played a game in your life but you have pretty good mind developed on problem solving this game is pretty easy.
Totally agreed, I think it's one of the best games I've ever played, and it's curious because I don't like puzzle games, but the mechanics on this game, they are just wonderful, and the history and character development as you say, great also, it's the best sequel we could've asked for.
The most chilling line in this song is, "One day they woke me up, so that I could live forever." The writer was a genius behind this. Carolyn's consciousness transferred as an AI. I also heard that it's possible that Carolyn was actually the one that could be Chell's mother (The player character). I never thought about that and now I'm accepting it as head cannon.
The only reference to it being Chell's mother is in the translated song the fat turret sings. Which the singer/song writer admitted it was just poor italian (or french can't remember) from a sloppy put together of the song. So while it is implied. It was implied more or less accidentally.
I just want to go back to 2011 and play this game for the first time again... it just sad man. I miss the old gaming, nowaday gaming is great too but y'know it just feel different, i never get that empty feeling after completing a game again. Maybe it just because im an adult now, sad reality...
She is capable of lying. And given her passive aggressive tendencies, maybe she just wanted to give you one last scare. After all: "And now little Caroline is in here too"
@@GamersFourEver1 agree! i just came to this video to remember beating the game on my ps3 maybe ten years ago... such a great ending, glad people are still experiencing it!
me too this game is my (bad english) "children life"? idk how to call it in english but its so amazing and i get very emotional too if i see this. i think i have to play the game another time
@@Infernoplex2531 Knowing Valves track record recently, we'll have to see. I have high hopes for it, but it most likely won't be what everyone expects it be.
I think a prequel would be fine. Remember the lost ground of Portal? The original test chambers? Why not make a game about the older facility? The creation of the gun, the original portal gun, the mistakes made with it and such, and you get to see who Carolyn and Cave are before they were both forever stuck in a computer. @@Batou3 I wouldnt want a sequel. I just wanna see what Aperture looked like in the past.
Coming back to this video 10 years later and it still brings a tear to my eye. Still, to this day, this is one of the best, if not the best, game I have ever played and the best ending to a video game I've ever seen.
Wheatley 39 years later : if I did see her again do you know what I'd say Spacecore: I'm in space Wheatley: YOU'VE SAID THAT FOR THE PAST 38 YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN IN SPACE SO SHUT UP Spacecore: SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE
And the lyrics to the turret singing is "Dear beautiful, my beautiful darling! My child, oh heavens! For I hold for esteem, for I hold for her esteem, farewell to my dear! My dear girl, why do you not walk away? Yes, away from Science, my dear, my dear girl? Ah, my beautiful! Ah, my dear! Ah, my child! Oh dear, my dear!" Is the lyrics to the singing turrets
"They don't make games like they did when Portal 2 came around" Portal 2 was an amazing game, yes, but there was no game like Portal 2. There were no games made like this game.
Portal 1 and 2 set a standard I'm shocked to see is so rarely mimicked. Not only did they have solid writing, by the standards of any medium, but they hardly compromised the gameplay to tell it. Portal 2 did "slightly" more than 1 to make it more cinematic, but ultimately the series never tried to be a movie with a game attached to it, like so many Naughty Dog-like titles do. It was an excellent story told via a game.
@@Mayeur000Donz exactly. And the fact that it was a game meant you could interact with the whole environment, do everything that happened in the storyline _yourself,_ rather than watching it from a screen (if it was a movie)
@@jemzomaclain Yeah, good point. I guess the lesson to take is that visual language is still important, but if player involvement could make a difference, make sure you include it. I'm reminded of the intro to Insomniac's Spiderman, which panned across Peter's apartment and flawlessly told us everything we needed to know.
im doing the same thing right now bro, i feel you, i remember listening to this so many long years ago, and now coming back older, i cant help but cry at this.
I know that she was downloaded to a potato lol, I played the game from end to end. I meant that I liked her pronunciation of the word, and I can't explain why
is the opera based off another song? i got my first accordion lately and was able to replicate the song almost. still working on it, but it sounds so cool with the alternating bass note of the accordion. Anyway ide like to figure out the real name of the song so i can listen and get better at it.
Cara Mia Addio is honestly one of my favourite tracks from the entire OST. The simple beeping of the turret quartet, who can actually be found in the game singing to the Opera Turret in a side area, (and if you look closely during the elevator rise, _every single turret_ is singing, even the sideways ones-but not the defective ones, they likely join in for the later bass notes), slowly shifting to a single turret as you rise into the main stage. And then as the Opera Turret starts singing words, every turret _including the Animal King_ joins her. All of these small, bullet-filled machines sing you off as you finally get out of a mechanical factory hell. It's an absolutely lovely and cathartic ending to an amazing game. The companion cube shot up at the end, the very same one you got all the way back in 1 and had to throw into the fire to complete the level, the charred yet still intact friend that clearly went on its own adventure, it makes it even sweeter. What a game. What a _series._ I'm still holding out hope for Portal 3, but if this really is the official chronological end for Valve's side of Portal (because c'mon, we got lots of fanmods to help expand the world a bit), this was a beautiful way to send it off.
I cryed at the end of the game, it was a struggle, and i wish they would make a portal 3, we want it so badly! the game was amazing, and has quite a bit of back story for a puzzle game, i thought it was just a puzzle game..
this comment is old but I get it sadly they won't, in the end with the portal opera, were all familiar with the it's not over until fat lady sings, that's what they were signifying, I doubt they'll make another portal
I'm pretty sure that Chell is really outside, have you seen the video about the hardlight bridge in the room where the elevator arrives. The sun is shining on some fields, than you can look closer to one of the fields. It's a yellow/brown field ( It must be wheat) and there is little electric shed in the middle! And Chell steps out of an electric shed in the middle of a field at the ending! Real light is needed to create hardlight bridges, because GLaDOS says in the game that she pumps real sunlight up from the surface! So Chell is really outside at the ending.
4:55 i have some kind of mandela effect type of memory from the moment where Chell turns around i remember seeing The Citadel really far away on the background
I think I have seen photos of futuristic cities with a foreground of grains fields too, the movie Tomorrowland comes to my mind (though I'm not sure if that on itself is a mandela effect). If you ever saw one of those and knowing how Portal and Half Life are connected, it isn't weird to think you would link those two concepts. It would be a interesting reveal though, but maybe if it just looked like a indiscernible futuristic city.
*elevator takes me to a floor where turrets are waiting for me* Me: Well played Glados....I actually believed you. *turrets start playing a song* Me: 0-0 Thank you Glados... :)
My head cannon is that Caroline wasn’t deleted, she still lives on in the turrets somehow- so Glados tried to indirectly kill chell but Caroline prevented it So it’s her mom singing to her (look up the English lyrics if you haven’t yet)
My jaw dropped and I just prepared to get shot.... HEY! if you turn on subtitles while the turrets are playing their lil song there’s lyrics in English
Honestly, this is one of the best endings to a video game that I've ever experienced. There is so much to unpack about the psychology behind GLaDOS' personality change, given that she's an AI with full sentience and has been sentenced to an eternity of isolation chasing the satisfaction of testing. Chell was the only thing that kept GLaDOS going, and I think she realized that in the end, what with Caroline's influence. I teared up when she told Chell to just leave but still sent her off with a beautiful aria. The passive nature of GLaDOS' sudden affection for Chell really sealed my love for her as both an antagonist and protagonist. I got chills when GLaDOS reached for Chell in space and dragged her back in, because I knew it wasn't for selfish purposes. It was a huge contrast to the ending to Portal 1 where Chell *did* escape, only to be yanked back into the facility for further testing. I laugh-cried when she even chucked the companion cube out for Chell. It felt like both a sarcastic jab (what with how damaged it is) and a kind gesture that suggests she hopes Chell isn't lonely on her new journey. At least that's how I saw it. It's pretty clear that this was Valve's last breath as a game developer. If this is the last true game of quality that we'll get from them, so be it. Portal 2 is by far one of my favorite games. Beautifully written, satisfyingly challenging and full of that signature Valve humor that I've loved so much.
Fun fact: The voice actor for Chell was the exact same voice actor for Gordon Freeman in Half-Life
Oh. So, Gordon is a girl actually?
@@bRUhlomeS no
Chell: ...
@@bRUhlomeS Excuse me but, do you are have the stupid?
@@AAArnold uuh, yea
I love that it takes exactly 2.6 seconds for the portal to hit the moon and activate. The exact same amount of time it takes for light to get to the moon from Earth and back.
The attention to detail is insane!
@@Thecoolmeister2005 the earth in the moon's sky is in the wrong place though since it should be directly over the portal
@@Asyrgath well i mean... if the portal hit like, the side of the moon it would appear correct thi
It's not 2.6 seconds, it's just over 1 second. 2.6 seconds is from the moon to the earth and back.
@@VOIDSenseMusic Yes, so 1.3 seconds for the shot to reach the moon (assuming it's travelling at the speed of light) and another 1.3 seconds for that information to reach Earth again
Fun fact: Ellen Mclain, the voice of GLAdDOS, is a classically trained opera singer and that's her singing the aria with the turrets.
arbitterm damn it sounds beautiful
thx for fact
Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but the lowercase letter in GLaDOS needs to be one character to the left.
@@jamespedrick4566 Sorry to be a Diction Nazi but that would be a punctuation error, not a grammatical one.
@James Pedrick @arbitterm not to be a nazi but could you guys shut the fuck up
I Can’t be the only one that still wells up when the turrets start singing
You too?
Everyone with feelings crys at the turrets singing
Look up the translated lyrics, and cry even harder.
SAME!!
I well up at the companion cube, personally
*glados:* this is so sad, turrets play cara mia
this is so freaking true
*When you realise glados is actually sassy future alexa*
I love this
I just realized that it's literally "It's not over, until the fat lady sings"
*T UR R E T S P L A Y D E S P A C I T O*
I love how GlaDos says that killing Chell is hard while putting her in front of thousand of Turrets, which shows how really GlaDos has a real appreciation for Chell and doesn’t want to kill her anymore, she just wants her gone
agree
Chell was killed by those turrets, the ending points to Greek mythology where you’d wake up in a corn field with your best friend if you got to go to heaven.
Nick Dixon Or it’s just a cornfield in Michigan. Endings don’t always have to be so grim.
Then again if this was around the time of the combine invasion Chell’s probably dead
In my head canon, portal 2 ended just after the combine invasion and therefore, there wouldn’t be many corn fields around anymore in Michigan.
@@nickrollstuhlfahrerson8659 I mean, there's still water on the ocean, so the Combine can't really still be there
GLaDOS: You Dangerous, Mute, Lunatic
Chell:
Mute
:|
Bravo you million golden stars for this attempt as joke
why did I laugh lol
Harkin Family Family yes my friend this are funny put on r/portal
11 years later
I’m not crying, you are
It came out when I was 2 and the graphics still amaze me best game ever
Maybe I’ll stop feeling so bad
@@fox.9879 Damn, you're small, kid
@@KeksimusMaximus best part is i only play games that are as old as me or older such duke nukem half life 1 the list goes on
@@fox.9879 same with me
GLaDOS: "You dangerous. Mute. Lunatic."
Chell: *jumps*
"so you know what? you win. just. go."
Ribbons0121 R121 *jumps again*
"dont come back"
@@Ribbons0121R121 *jumps again* x2
GLaDOS: STOP SAYING APPLE
I love the last scene where they just throw the companion cube like "take your friend and don't come back anymore"
Also, it’s the original companion cube, from portal one, not the model from portal two
@@ttracs Yep, it has marks from when you throw the Companion Cube into the furnace, kinda nice of GladOS to recover that for you.
@@SammEater but the question is how did it survive, it’s meant to be, well, incinerated
All apature tech is operational above 4000 degrees kelvin or something like that
It points to Greek mythology were if you died you'd wake up in a cornfield with your bestfriend
*WHEATLEY* - Y’know, if I was ever to see her again, d’you know what I'd say?
*CORE 1* - I'm in space.
*Space Core is core 1.
Erm… yes?
Uh...No?
Uhh... ok?
Nouche lol
"Carolyn deleted"
Always struck me as dark, brutal, and so sad after getting to like the Carolyn side of GlaDOS. Basically like bringing out this feeling woman we've grown fond of and executing her in front of us.
She dint delete it,it would be like deleting system 32 for her
@@Sink_boat1 yea ur right it even in the end credits song
@@Sink_boat1 that little laugh after she says "just go" shows me Carolyn is still in there
No. Glados meant that " remember me as a friend you had, not the cruel person right now "
B E E E E E P Caroline deleted.
They gave credit to NASA for the Earth picture
**clap clap**
Because that's what heroes do.
Upesu where, timestamo please
Prinsipe Motions 7:22
It was fake
lil MLG how is it fake
This is probably the most saddest and sweetest endings to a game. Honestly there's nothing quite like it.
It was one of the most satisfyng endings I've ever witness.
Why sadest wtf
AnAwkward Skittle YOU SPELLED SATISFYING WRONG REEEE
the end is questionable; Chell is stranded in the mid of nowhere in michigan. HL2 happenend during the underground events, so earth is overrun by combines
@@rivenoak
Maybe not in the U.S.A. Half-Life 2 events are in a Easter Europe country
@@crack4184 in lore the 7 hours war was not pleasant to earth.
if the combine crashed in hardest where the resistance was the most, then imagine former USA devastated within first hour and remained largely uncivilized until now (aka when Chell re-emerged from the depths) .
Poor chell.. after surviving deadly neurotoxins, psychotic AIs and a endless line of tests , she escapes only to find... an alien invasion.
Oh
Yeah
Half life
she slept 999,999 years
Angel Flores or she slept 9 years and the machine broke while saying it? Or 999999 weeks, or days, or millenniums.
Noamias that wouldn’t explain how broken down the place got. That wouldn’t happen after just a couple months
yeah, the time in the relaxation vault could have been anywhere between a few decades and millennia, it's never specified in game though
Chell: finally i'm out of that place, I'M FREE!!!!
Combine: *You, come with me*
Combine- Anti citizen detected.
I'd assume that the Combine would have been beaten or just left earth. You know, since 50,000 years had passed
@@Nekiplex Well, Portal 2 year Is unknow, someone days that only days passed between Portal 1 and 2. Others says years and others says that happens at the same time with Half-Life 2.
Also, in The 7 Hours War United States was destroyed and "erased" of the Earth, no one remain in there after the war, maybe only Xen creatures
Pick up that can
@@megustaelmate5499 Some guy: Only days passed between Portal 1 and 2.
*looks at the facility's decrepit condition*
You sure about that pal?
GLaDOS: I can’t kill you. It is to hard.
*puts chell in front of the biggest army of turrets in Aperature*
*turrets start signing*
Chell: are you ****ing kidding me?
she was obviously lying dude, she said that caroline memories maker her seen chell as a friend, but she know that caroline was her mother so by de facto glados is chell mom, and the part of her trying to act hard on chell and made her leave is because she loves her and doesnt want her to suffer
I think GlaDOS couldn't kill her because her coding had to put Chell through tests that had a solution, and Chell always found the way to sort them out. I don't think it was in her coding to just shoot her to death without any escapatory.
@@oliver170 didn't GLaDOS make multiple traps without any escape just to kill Chell?
@@crashmania4685 Chell always found a Way to sort them out. GlaDOS knows that Chell had the possibility of Escaping them, which is how she could make the Traps in the First Place. That or she was able to go against her Programming.
GlaDOS probably assigned those turrets to be there before Wheatley took control on the main facility, just for some cases if GlaDOS was tired of Chell's shenanigans and she wanted Chell dead and lure her to the elevator -with a turkey leg dangling on the-
-elevator's ceiling- .
Also, Caroline was the only *unremovable* personality core GlaDOS has until now after those other personality cores who got incinerated. GlaDOS would let Chell die in Space and just continue living and testing with those Testing Initiatives GlaDOS made. But no, she didn't, because her consciences (Caroline) pushed her/self to save Chell. We don't know if Chell was actually the daughter of Caroline and Johnson or was just adopted but Caroline cares for Chell. GlaDOS (the robot) didn't knew that Caroline was inside her brain(?) so she didn't bother to threaten Chell with more deadly tests. But after GlaDOS was put into a potato, Caroline's consciences grew. (Maybe GlaDOS didn't have enough storage to process her own stuff in the potato because Caroline's consciences took over it)
And after GlaDOS came back to her mainframe (The robot body), she found at that there is something lurking in her systems which was Caroline's thoughts and stuff. Which awoken Caroline's humanity and saved Chell. So, yeah, these are my guesses/explanations on why GlaDOS didn't kill Chell at the end because of Caroline.
GLaDOS have to be the most passive-aggressive game villain of all time
edit: jesus christ, it's been two years
I would label her more as aggressive passive aggressive
Thats not how cycles work but i will let that slip
@@ralphneonagonoy131 She's passive aggressive, while still being fairly aggressive
True. She constantly takes jabs as you, but if you think about it, she could've killed you in a second if she really wanted.
Imagine the sheer volume of processing power she can dedicate to generating such SICK BURNS on the fly like that.
"everybody gangsta till the fat turret sings "
Everybody gangsta till the king turret sings
that bass though
Best comment
Im pretty sure u mean the thiccc turret
With 3 c’s to show how thiccc he is
it ain't over till the fat turret sings
The ending implies the combine was defeated. That’s because you can see a intact ecosystem when you leave Aperture. And the Combine drained earths oceans and destroyed the ecosystem of earth. So they either were defeated or left earth and it recovered.
For some reason id want to go back, not because of the surface(the surface looks super cozy) but because I'd feel more home and special at the facility.
It was probably so long that the combine probably just left earth
@@Andyou_3 Doubt they did it on purpose
or maybe this was before black mesa disaster
@@blazingshadow2669 Definetly not. At the end of portal 1 GlaDos warns Chell several times of the combine.
„I have an infinite capacity for knowledge and even I don’t know what is going on out there.“
This ending song almost feels like an end of the Valve we all loved.
Honestly, I would be happy if this is their final story-driven single-player game.
I know we still want HL3, but I won't hold my breath for that to happen.
This is the end of an era.
Valve Software 1998-2011.
Mr Nelson yeah when they made original and fun games was great, now it’s filler and dlc
Mr Nelson stuff like the portal bridge game we’re fun but it’s just filler
@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 who told you this lie?
Mr Nelson I really hate doing this but...
Their
@@placeholdernameisplacehold7671 wrong. its confirmed to be never a thing. all of the writer already left and there's not even ANY slight of leak / clue from the writer, at least compared to L4D3 rumour with potential assets
HL3 is officially dead after the writer wrote the actual ending of HL universe
I love how they included NASA in their credits
7:24 👌
for pictures of the moon
They legally have to lol. Probably due to copyright
@@ZEYDYTUBE yes because NASA copyrighted the moon
@@theworst. no but they copyrighted the textures they made and put out for 3D artist to use
I think it’s really sweet that Glados even went and got the companion cube out of the incinerator and gave it to Chell :)
Gonna paste my relevant comment here:
I just realized something: it is possible that in the ending, glados DID kill chell.
It is a common folklore belief that when you die, you are serenaded and released into a field accompanied by your best friend. We see this exact thing happen. Directly after several guns are pointed at chell.
@@seanrobinson-old-4463 if that’s the case why’s there an entire song about her not killing you?
@@seanrobinson-old-4463 That's a headcanon that is far-reaching and completely turns the entirety of the game upside down. It would completely kill GLaDOS' character development, because it's been confirmed that she didn't actually delete Caroline, who was the source of GLaDOS' empathy in the end.
Also, yeah, that entire song at the end is about *not* killing Chell, and setting her free with the hopes that she won't feel so bad anymore, which are the lyrics in the [REDACTED] part of the credits lol.
Let's not reduce GLaDOS to that. She deserves more credit lol. It's literally the whole point of the ending.
@Esmeralda Which is a fact of life. Many times things you do aren't really worth it, except for some 'personal journey' BS rationalisation.
Creo que más bien fue para que chell no tuviera razón para volver y la dejara en paz
4:20 always makes me cry, just the music slowly rising to a final climax as the elevator ascends through the facility up through the ruined portions and then to the top.
It's even sadder when you read the translation.
My dear child...
Why don't you walk far away?
So far away from Science!
My dear, dear baby...
Ah, my beloved!
Ah, my dear!
Ah, my dear!
Ah, my little girl!
Oh dear, my dear...
GLaDOS, aka Caroline, is saying goodbye to her daughter, Chell. She wants her to stay as far away from her as possible because she's programmed to test and the only way to keep her safe is by sending her to the surface.
@@TechMaestro01 I thought it was maybe like Caroline’s mother after Caroline (glados) got transferred into glados if you don’t understand what I mean there is glados lore and stuff so yea
4:20
Dude that's like my favorite part!!!! This dramatic ascension to the surface. THE SURFACE. Seeing the walls and lights of the facility rapidly move downward shows that this entire facility highly esteems you and rightfully so. Everything rapidly descending before your eyes represents how far you've come and progressed through the facility, as what Chell has done all her life. And the SONG. Even if you don't know what the words mean, I feel like anyone in Chell's position would just naturally hear this perfect song playing in their head. But once you realize what the words are saying?!!!! WOW. Whoever said "Video games aren't an art form because they're hollow" straight up shouldn't be allowed to vote.
“Killing you, is hard.”
This isn’t because Chell overpowers Glados. This is because Glados has a deep connection for Chell. She could have killed Chell in space or let those turrets turn her into bits, but she didn’t. We really don’t know what causes the feelings and affection that the android has for her because of the fact that she desperately wants to remove any sort of Caroline’s past. Yet at the same time her motherly instincts wanted her and wants her to be ok.
Glados is the most complex character I have encountered. The simultaneous feelings of both understanding and feeling connected to her at the same time as hating her so much is achieved through such excellent writing.
That's what I wanted to say. Glados is a super intelligent AI who is constructed for pleasure-drived human-killing crazy science experiments. But she also has memories as her original, a human.. With every episodes she keeps restoring her humanity but remains as a machine ayway. Her contradictory behaviors toward Chell evokes the tension, with some odd saddness and lovable feelings to us. Her complexity is unique. I really love her. Glados is one and only character in he entire game history and will be.
@@jayd4332 Im surprised with her character
Or maybe she just learned not to fuck with Chell because it invariably goes wrong, no matter how sure fire the trap seemed.
Learning machine _learned_
My personal theory is that she only saved chell so that the relief that she got if she survived (or the sadness when she died) could be used to find Caroline. The reason she didn't just kill Chell with turrets is because Chell has fucked with her plans so many times that she is unsure if it will actually work, and decides she doesn't want to give Chell a chance to blow her up a third time.
@@tomm5663 but then why the whole song?
Favourite ending to any game ever. Gave me chills.
Yeah, the moon bit was so clever. The way they kept mentioning the moon dust throughout the game and then in that final moment seeing the moon itself through the collapsed roof. I'll never get that feeling again, when I first realised I knew what needed to be done. Shoot the moon! Beyond epic. Probably the greatest game ever made.
Flyberius I think you're right.The moment I saw the moon my first thought was "MOON DUST!!!" Simply awesome.
MadBrainBox MOONSTONE lol skyrim
Toby Brooks Dragonbone armor with enchantments. Top that shit
SyndexAwesome me too
The first time I played this, I thought the turrets would kill me, and they scared me so badly.
Same lol
at first, i thought they were just gonna shoot me, and then they started singing, i thought that it would be like a scary movie and i would die when the music stopped
+Tyler Blue Me too
lol same here! I said 'Aw No' in shock because I didn't want to go out like that 😆
lmao i love glados but i thought she betrayed me
I actually cried here
not because of what happened, but because it's seriously implying it's over
these games were so fun, I really want more
Me too, it's so strange
I so hate the fact that even over 12 years later portal 2 is still the best 5 hours spent on a game I've had and will probably ever have. Dude, the game is such a good balance of all aspects yet being compressed in just a few hours (I haven't done multiplayer because no friends lol), can we get a single game like this please?
@@Sergonizer sorry, pipe wheel can’t count to 3
Wheatley screaming “Grab me” is just so disturbing...
Mabye because that's what he said when he jumped off the rail
I still get goosebumps.
Lmaoo
I geniunely feel bad for Wheatley. Wish he didn't have to go to space with that core. If only all the cores made it in here with him, maybe he would have someone to talk with. For example, the core with a green eye. It can talk quite normally.
Aay Poo from MOTHER 2
You would sure know disturbing
You know
With Giygas
And
Like
Mutilating every part of your body
"Its been fun, Don't come back"
This was valves way of saying, nothing else will likely be made
Edit 1: (Yes i know they tried to make a portal 3 in VR, Yes i know half life Alyx was out, but wheres the heavy update?)
Edit 2: Guys stop replying I made an incorrect prediction aight
Holy fuckin shit...
Hi. I am from the future and we have a (kind of) new portal and a new half life coming.
Magical Shibe new portal?
@@kaizoulol I think it's called aperture hand lab.
@@Wylde_ what is that? some porn flick? I ain't getting no handie from a turret!
Every time I see this I get so sad that it's over forever
Ethan Gilbert
Actually there are some portal 3 rumors...
www.google.com/amp/en.yibada.com/articles/amp/138077/20160707/left-4-dead-3-left-4-dead-3-gameplay-left-4-dead-3-release-portal-3-portal-3-release.htm?client=safari
Sorry it's a really long link
Paper Mario 46 that's not a link
Ethan Gilbert its definitely not over
so the main characther just stays there XD
Ethan Gilbert I know right
Realizing that the implication here is that Caroline spent years and years hiding so that GlaDOS wouldn’t notice that she was in her brain, but for just a moment she gave into her emotions to try and save you; which allowed GlaDOS to find and kill her. She basically sacrifices herself for you.
woah wtf
Nah the Caroline part of her wasn't deleted, I guess the "Caroline deleted" was a way to insentivise Chell to leave and not come back. GlaDOS is still the same.
@@LilKittyKat-C yeah like you cant delete yourself
Caroline is like Glados system 32, she can’t be deleted without destroying Glados in the process
"Now little Caroline is in here too" - GLaDOS (Want you gone)
Caroline aint deleted
Anybody else notice that Chell still tries to grab Wheatley when he’s knocked away.
:(
Ye so sad. He was my faveroute charachter cus of the English accent (I’m English btw)
It was corruption that was responsible for his *Fate*
@@two-facedhypocrite3809 With his new friend SPY
@@rubystickmc8354 via falling into a wormhole and travelling back in time
She has the mind of a child so yeah kinda sad
Turrets : *Aiming at us*
Me : Son of a....
Turrets : *Start Humming*
Me : What ze fu-
DeadOXAtlas them singing is more confusing then the question: HOW THE FU*K THEY MADE A TURRET THAT BIG, FIT IT THERE AND PROGRAM THE ABILITY TO HUM!?
Imagine if all these turrets shot you
Ill use your name as an anwser. WaitWhat?
@White Doodles fhak
Honestly my favorite comment ever...
I don't care how menacing she is, whenever Glados say potato I always chuckle.
Or put meh in a potato
also the way she said potato at the end too XD
po-tato
I absolutely love Portal 2 its one of the best Games i ever played
Exeactly
It honestly may be my favorite game of all time. It's perfection.
I feel like people underappreciate Wheatly perfecting planning how to beat you in both not making the same mistakes and booby trapping the only way to resolve the stalemate
Yeah it was really smart of him
The only mistake is that he shouldn't have thrown bombs at Chell. Instead, he should let the neurotoxin do the work.
yeah but if you do nothing, chell could come up with an idea, because she is the only one that survived. Throwing bombs at her, would keep her busier and prevent her to cellect herself
@@venarniumcrazy6143 then put some guns but the guns cannot damage Wheatley in any way.
It's a shame it was night at the time huh?
I mean, you *definitely* can't put portals on the sun...
...Right?
The most important thing about this game: The space core made it to space.
Yes
Yes
SPPPPPACE!
I'M IN SPACE!
SPACE!
Yes
Let's fill this chat by saying “Yes"
Legends say the Space Core is still spacing out.
Nah, he landed in Skyrim.
TheAdvertisement space? WE GoTtA gO tO spAcE
TheAdvertisement you see I would like this but you have a perfect number of 76
Meet the cores-4
He could be replacing the word space with “Earth”.
I just got that the Space Core is orbiting around Wheatley because he's REALLY DENSE.
Wow.
Ok, I love this!
This game has a very twisted ending. When I saw the four turrets facing me I was like " GLaDOs you lying piece of scrap metal". Then when they started singing I was relieved.
There is a popular theory floating around that those turrets did kill Chell in the elevator. Her seeing them sing and the grass outside was simply a hallucination as her brain was dying.
Katy Bee it's been confirmed fake by the devs, Chell is alive and GladOS did not betray her
The whole "happy ending was a dream and the story actually ended at the depressing part" is an old theory that get attached to a lot of stories with ambiguous endings.
Katy Bee Its just another run away fan-fiction. Unless confirmed by a developer or the game's story writer. Just dismiss ones like that.
Same here! 😂 Even on the last floor below ground. I was like ohhhhhhh man, it's still not finished!
I feel bad for Wheatley. GLaDOS' power literally went to the poor guys head. He wasn't programmed to handle that level of control, so it's only natural that he went berserk. That's why, as soon as he's disconnected from that power, he immediately wishes he could take back everything he did.
Also, GLaDOS said she'd heard voices all her life. It could be that these same voices were tempting Wheatley and he just didn't have the sense to question them.
@@textexadecimal9340 The voices were the dampening cores from number one and they were the voices tempting GLaDOS to not kill everybody by flooding the enrichment centre with deadly neurotoxin until you destroyed the cores letting her have the ability to flood the enrichment centre with a deadly neurotoxin.
@@psychoumbreon12 Ok, I think you're right. What gets me, though, is how quickly she snaps back to evil when she's returned to power (of course she did express that she was too low on power for any intense thought).
@@psychoumbreon12 But what about the corrupt cores that were put on wheatly? Did he just snap after hearing them?
@@annarubinchik9591 kind of, they were the things corrupting wheatly to make the core transfer from him to glados possible again. but they also made him more dangerous.
The incredible part about this, is that if you pay close attention to the opera, it talks about how Chell ''Won't go away from science'' about how she's her ''beautiful darling'' then you realize GlaDOS knows that Chell is Caroline's daughter, and so, her's, and she's singing her a farewell lullaby.
This game is such a masterpiece, they don't make them like this anymore.
It's like a mother who wants her child to step away from something that killed her. The mother wants her to leave science, but the Glados part is in denial and keeps on testing her, while also trying to murder her. "stay away from science my child". It's a destructive thing really.
Caroline is definitely not Chell's mother. Chell is an orphan, and Caroline was turned in to GLaDOS long before Chell even existed. I find it more touching anyway if GLaDOS is an AI that simply came to care for a human on her own and not because she felt some familial obligation.
@@Ghost-kt9et actually is fairly popular fan theory is that caroline had an affair with rat man and that baby was chell (or possibly they dated before she was with cave and she got pregnant). Anyways, its pretty clear that chell is Carolines daughter, with the easter eggs and french turret song it doesnt become much more clear.
They don't make them like this anymore because Valve stopped making games :'(
Tiffany The Thug People see what they want to see. It's just that though, a *fan theory* , and the reason it's so popular is because people love dramatic twists and also can't make sense of GLaDOS having any kind of fondness for Chell without there being a familial tie. For some reason it's hard for everyone to believe that an AI could simply develop an attachment to a human. The song doesn't confirm anything because GLaDOS' voice actress herself said she just scrapped together some of her bad high school Italian and to not read too much in to the lyrics; The "my sweet baby" (or whatever it was) line people always point to to prove that Chell is her daughter isn't actually literally meant to mean "my child", but is a general term of endearment (we even use "baby" in english to address our significant others). Once again, it makes GLaDOS' character development far more meaningful if she developed the feelings for Chell ON HER OWN and not because she was Chell's family in another life.
Me: No it can’t end I want Portal 3!
Also me: Shut up, me! The ending of Portal 2 was perfect and a unneeded sequel would only ruin it!
portal three wont get produced, but portal 4 will, since valve doesn't fucking know how to count lmao
Unless they made a core rebel and kill GladOs, and take over, and see the records of Chell and bring her back.
@@kah3164 honestly I’d love a prequel. Where we see GLaDOS taking over the facility. It’d be dark af but it’d work better than a sequel.
Portal: Gordon xd
It has to be better than Portal 2 but that's a tall order to go through.
4:10
I get shivers every single time. The song conveys emotion so well, I always think of the whole series and the emotion that shot through me every time I played the game. It's as if everyone at Valve was thanking you for playing the game and as the elevator rises you know the game is coming to an end and you feel nothing but bliss. At least that's how I felt it and it was honestly the most beautiful ending to a game I have ever seen.
It was the feeling of " I'm....finally going home! I am free!" This is one of the few games that bring tears to my eyes and it's difficult for me to cry. The cube thing at the end made me laugh as well.
If you translate the song into English, you'll find that it's a love song from a mother to a daughter. Along with much other tid-bits and such from the game, speculation and rumor has it that Chell is Caroline's daughter.
I don't think GLaDOS actually deleted Caroline.
Nathan Barnard In this case I'm really happy to be italian, one of the best ending I'ìve ever watched.
-Pao for those who dont speak italian, these are the english lyrics
Dear beautiful, my beautiful darling.
My child, in the estimation of the estimation.
To my dear, farewell!
My dear child, why do not you walk far away from science?
My dear, my dear child.
My Lovely.
My dear.
My dear.
To my little girl.
A dear, dear to me!
THAT is exactly what I felt, beautiful.. Just beautiful, the ending is such a beast. It's so emotional, this game rocks.
It's sad the turret who was singing in 3:44 shut himself down
Saranga Edirisooriya now I'm depressed ;~;
He isn’t dad, perhaps he’s just charging, or in a power saving mode?
The Turret activated the Sleep Mode. And wait, did you just assumed the turret's gender?
it's so that the turrets could sing such a sad song
I mean like he just had a solo
Hearing Wheatley panically and hopelessly shout "Grab me, Grab me, Grab me! Grab meeeeeeeeeee..." makes me kinda sad. Isolation is probs my biggest fear
Mediocre Gamer yeah but he tried to squish us, poison us, shoot us, explode us and many other things so he sort of deserves it
@@xvx_cooldude69_xvx43 I didn't thought that when I was playing Portal 2, but now, when replayed portal +100500 times, I understood
Mediocre Gamer at least he has the space core
@@xvx_cooldude69_xvx43 The thing is, he never really was evil. All of that power simply messed him up.
@@xvx_cooldude69_xvx43 That's because GladOS' core corrupts anything that is plugged into it. You'll realize that when he first gets in the mainframe he starts glitching out and then becomes WheatOS.
Literally had tears in my eyes at the end of this. What the fuck, Valve makes absolute masterpieces.
Agree, both Portal chapters were legit
I was just kinda sitting perfectly still, hoping the turrets didn't shoot
*used to make absolute masterpieces ☹️
It's even more heart breaking when you learn that GLaDOS, aka Caroline, is Chell's mother. When translated, the song says,
My dear child...
Why don't you walk far away?
So far away from Science!
My dear, dear baby...
Ah, my beloved!
Ah, my dear!
Ah, my dear!
Ah, my little girl!
Oh dear, my dear...
The plot goes deeper, but I'll leave that for you to dig up. Unless you want me to tell you everything.
@@TechMaestro01 do it lmao
The space bit is one of, if not my favorite, moments in any piece of media. The voice acting is phenomenal. The "I already fixed it, and you are *not* coming back." and "Grab me, grab me, grab me!" gets me every time.
Juju Bee I know, i can't stop listening to it 😍
Juju Bee
Juju Bee So much space, need to see it all
I know right? The way he says "Grab me! Grabe me! Grab meeeeeee!" is just so heartbreaking, you know? He may be an asshole but leaving him in space to be orbited by the space cube is just a little too cold.
It's cool puzzle since Cave Johnson died from the lunar space dust.
Props to Chell's amazing voice actress for her amazing performance in both games
yeah she did such an amazing job, had me in tears when she said .
Fun fact: they use the same voice actor from the gtao character
@@slaybutton1692 man when she sayed: "2... Portals? I guess this is some kind of portal 2
@@captainfunrock Here's an even funnier fact: Chell and Gordong Freeman from the Half-Life franchise are voiced by the same person. Yes, one person voiced two completely different characters of different genders and NO ONE noticed anything wrong. That's true acting.
I got super pissed when wheatley betrayed me. He was so nice!
I know right...He was funny too😀
Wheatley X Chell anyone?
TrollUntroll 64 Please don't do that, please no ;-;
Nicy30941 Please yes.
TrollUntroll 64 PLEASE NO
Y’Know, everyone always talks about how Wheatley and the Space Core are floating through space, but no one ever talks about how Rick the Adventure Core flies through the portal before anyone else. Poor neglected Rick.
I better calling him C. Rick (Core Rick)
He went on the greatest adventure he shall ever go on. I only wonder about the sanity of each core. Eventually they shall stop thinking.
Harryuk actually addressed what could've happened to em as an animation
@@engineergaming5989 and then C.Rick eventually stopped thinking and became a stone
@@engineergaming5989 coming from engineer gaming
"Glad i got rid of that Wheatley. now i can step outside into....Wheat??"
Lol
Seems to be a prairie
How will to a guy on the street to see a woman in a tank top and what looks like half a prison jumpsuit using a strange device to hold a rusty cube?
The farm I think is supposed to be an Easter egg about cave Johnson.
@@Wylde_ I think it's windows xp wallpaper
There is two refernences to myths and popular culture. 1.it isn't over till the fat lady sings
And 2. It was said in Ancient Greece, when you die, you appear in a wheat field with your best friend
the elysan Fields right? the place where the good people goes
Good to know Chelle' s best bud was a cube
Theres a theory that the turrents actually killed her
To support this: the ending of portal 1 shows chell outside the aperture lab in a parking lot,but when chell goes out of the lab a second time its turned into a field. CONFIRMED
@@zainawad5483 its not like there is only one tunnel to go up . and there is fact that is been quite thousand years or more from the portal 1, and like some people think that the apocalypse has been end so might be human start a new day . but yeah who knows maybe get confirmed when half life 3 realese that fucking take 5 more years :'v
I think it's probably a pretty safe assumption to say that I think the central core Mainframe that Wheatley got plugged into was probably in itself corrupted. Therefore it corrupted whatever core was plugged into it. That's why GLaDOS was so rational and helpful when she was in the potato, and that's also why Wheatley went crazy when he was plugged into it, but then went back to normal and genuinely said he was sorry when he was disconnected and left in space. GLaDOS resetting everything to keep it from blowing up probably purged the corruption from the Mainframe which is why she's fine after we wake back up and let's us go.
Or there is something called character development. Plus if you were a potato, you would also be nice to anyone around you. And if you ended up isolated in space for life wouldn't you also feel sorry for what you've done? The only thing that corrupted Wheatly was the power itself, not some mainframe bug. Glados probably really went through some character development while in the potato. And after all you are useless to her at this point, why use energy to kill you?
@@andreigirjoaba360 Maybe. Power was definitely a part of what drove Wheatley insane. I still think A.I. corruption was a factor as GLaDOS was completely corrupted when we switched her. Theorizing is such fun, yeah?
Well GlaDOS goes back to testing after the story in the co-op, what she does with the test subjects in the vault is unknown, maybe dejected releases them all. Or wakes them and forces them to continue testing
To be fair weatley was going to let you go he just wanted a few more minutes in control of the facility and if chill would’ve just said something she could’ve arranged a deal were he stays but she leaves but then glados had to open her stupid little mouth
I mean, i always thought it was corrupted. since when you plug in corrupted cores, it doesnt start off at 25%, but 50%, and each core adds 25%. So its safe to assume it was already corrupt before adding more cores.
After all these years I still find it amazing how much emotion they can convey with such simple designs. Both Glados and Wheatley is basically just an eye and they still emote so well.
Imagine having a GLaDOS themed gps. OMG I WANT ONE
They have those
Griffin the black ice dragon
“You idiot, turn left.”
“Are you this dense? Turn right.”
“Now i have to recalculate the nearest destination for you again..”
“Oh, it’s you..”
“You monster, go back.”
“Keep straight.”
"Turn left you monster"
"Good you have missed the turn, now I have to recalculate it. You are a monster."
-search for potatos store -
GlaDoS: Oh you are kidding me--
"You should reach your destination in... Screw it. You can see the ETA on the screen. Just go..."
The king turret is the bass is so great
+SpinTic That thing looks like a walking missile silo! Bet it shoots nukes. :)
He is too small for nukes, well maybe the davy crockett, but other than that he probably has regular missiles.
nukes are possible , it's large enough
Loved it
They call him The animal king
Anyone else loves the king turret doing the base to the song? And it's funny when its eyes dilate when it make the sounds!
Fat white turrent sings then king turret with the bassline ... so fucking epic.
agree it is my favorite game and the king turret is my favorite part
+Foxloverz 5000 how do you know
Roronoa Zoro He's right its called the animal king I just forgot the name
I always wondered why he was never a boss?
The fact they made it seem like Chell was going to die then the turrets just start singing is the best most random thing ever
" no one put me in a potato"
"It would be funny,
if it weren't so sad"
Nobody put me in a POtato
Or FeD mE tO bIrDs
I had a pretty good life, and then y o u showed up. You dangerous, mute, lunatic
Scooby doo Fruit snacks I love portal
Portal 2 really was the full package for me. It expanded on every element of the first game in so many fantastic ways. It was more difficult, had more story, more character, more comedy, more challenges, more gameplay mechanics, etc. And all of it worked. Nothing felt tacked on. All of it was meticulously thought out. And then this ending... Holy shit. One of my absolute favorite games of all time. Had a blast playing it again after all of these years and it certainly won't be the last time.
I agree so much. I don't get the people who say the game dragged on or that the gameplay loop was basically identical to the first game. It had a far more solid story, that as you said, expanded on every element of the original game, it was by all definitions a perfect sequel.
@@gnostic2815 not really.
i love your prof pic. avatar the last airbender is like the best thing in the world. much love
@@gnostic2815 You don't need to be a "gamer" to play a puzzle game. If you haven't played a game in your life but you have pretty good mind developed on problem solving this game is pretty easy.
Totally agreed, I think it's one of the best games I've ever played, and it's curious because I don't like puzzle games, but the mechanics on this game, they are just wonderful, and the history and character development as you say, great also, it's the best sequel we could've asked for.
The most chilling line in this song is, "One day they woke me up, so that I could live forever."
The writer was a genius behind this. Carolyn's consciousness transferred as an AI. I also heard that it's possible that Carolyn was actually the one that could be Chell's mother (The player character). I never thought about that and now I'm accepting it as head cannon.
It's heavily hinted at.
The only reference to it being Chell's mother is in the translated song the fat turret sings. Which the singer/song writer admitted it was just poor italian (or french can't remember) from a sloppy put together of the song. So while it is implied. It was implied more or less accidentally.
*KABOOOM!!*
Head cannon.
It is also hinted in the song:
"She was a lot like you
(Maybe not quite as heavy)
Now little Carolyn
Is in here too"
The Guy Who Wrote Both This And The Song From Portal 1(John C) Is Amazing Is On A Good Podcast I Like Called Ask Me Another
0:00
Gameplay Ending
3:07
Turret Song
5:07
Want you gone
7:26
Wheatley Sorry
Thx
PART 5 BOOBY TRAP THE STALEMATE BUTTON
@@TheHollowKnight. I made this over a year ago. Why?
PART 6 BOOBYTRAP THE STALEMATE BUTTON
@@TheHollowKnight. what
This game was worth every cent
BIG TIME!
Me too in summer sale
My friend got the first and second game fir $3
I got lucky i bought it on a sale (3$)
I got it for $.5
I just want to go back to 2011 and play this game for the first time again... it just sad man. I miss the old gaming, nowaday gaming is great too but y'know it just feel different, i never get that empty feeling after completing a game again. Maybe it just because im an adult now, sad reality...
It's not just because you're an adult, they just don't make games like they used to.
Carolus- cy try detriot become human. almost 50 endings and a game that sucks you into the story.
@@tavvy4426 I agree! It is a great game!
Well i thought im the only one have that empty feel when you finished a game
Carolus- cy RDR2?
You know... after all these years, I'm starting to think...
Maybe she didn't delete Caroline?
never did actually, if you hear it, glados stopped it in the nearest split second.
@@Insertsmth also she says "now little Caroline is in here with me" in the ending song so Im fairly certaint that she faked it
She is capable of lying. And given her passive aggressive tendencies, maybe she just wanted to give you one last scare. After all: "And now little Caroline is in here too"
Not only she didn't, she CAN'T. GLaDOS is Caroline after all, it's in her name (GL stands for Genetic Lifeform).
She didn’t
I just beat this game yesterday and literally had CHILLS while listening to the turret song. Haha.
me too, friend... me too.
I just love hearing people are still buying and enjoy the game. Makes me so happy
@@GamersFourEver1 agree! i just came to this video to remember beating the game on my ps3 maybe ten years ago... such a great ending, glad people are still experiencing it!
This is one of the best game endings I've ever played, great music as well.
This is one pf the best games generally
I would say that, but the constant testing was too much at times. Still a brilliant game and I wonder why I only got round to playing it last year.
John Doge
I'm trying to figure out wich game actually has a better ending. Right now I can't think of any. This might be the best games ending ever?
Sam Ajami
It probably is the best that I know just because it has such a unique ending.
the game was epic n all but i have a hard time taking you seriously with a profile picture and name like that...
I don't know why i get so emotional when I listen to portal 2 ending song
Because it's so AWSOME!!!!!
Malefor yeah, nice profile pic...
So far I've seen two people with a Hitler profile picture in this comment section.
me too this game is my (bad english) "children life"? idk how to call it in english but its so amazing and i get very emotional too if i see this. i think i have to play the game another time
it was my childhood
R.I.P The original Valve. 1998-2011
The "Original Valve" was dead since the launch of HL1
@@quiver5756 Original Valve has been dead since they stopped doing single player games, or games with story. This was the last one.
What about Half-Life: Alyx?
@@Infernoplex2531 Knowing Valves track record recently, we'll have to see. I have high hopes for it, but it most likely won't be what everyone expects it be.
@@tellafella4826 There's a game coming. It's called Half-Life: Alyx and it's single player game with story. Portal 2 is not the last one
The two Portals are some of the greatest games of all times, and have some of the best endings of all time.
That's right, citizen.
I wonder how the main entrance of aperture science looks like.
Mel wasn’t made by valve though, that was just a fan interpretation
It is underground tho
I think it just has a bunch of smaller entrances. Not one main entrance
*cough* ending of portal 1
It’s huge it has multiple entrances. I think they look similar than the ones from Black Mesa.
Best ending to a game ever. Such a shame we wont get Portal 3. But I suppose its good nothing will ever destroy the legacy of the game.
No need. Glados called it quits and the girl is free. Why ruin the moment with another?
I think a prequel would be fine. Remember the lost ground of Portal? The original test chambers? Why not make a game about the older facility? The creation of the gun, the original portal gun, the mistakes made with it and such, and you get to see who Carolyn and Cave are before they were both forever stuck in a computer. @@Batou3 I wouldnt want a sequel. I just wanna see what Aperture looked like in the past.
tbh i think half-life 3 will give us more insight into aperature
This is the best ending to any video game I've ever played. It had me in tears the first time I finished the game.
Coming back to this video 10 years later and it still brings a tear to my eye.
Still, to this day, this is one of the best, if not the best, game I have ever played and the best ending to a video game I've ever seen.
I 100% agree, bro
Wheatley 39 years later : if I did see her again do you know what I'd say
Spacecore: I'm in space
Wheatley: YOU'VE SAID THAT FOR THE PAST 38 YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN IN SPACE SO SHUT UP
Spacecore: SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE SPACE
I think their power will run out
Hey!!
There is no logic and that is what makes it funnier. so shhhh
@@sometimes_archiving
*QUACK*
Markiplier be like
*S. P. A. C. E*
And the lyrics to the turret singing is "Dear beautiful, my beautiful darling! My child, oh heavens! For I hold for esteem, for I hold for her esteem, farewell to my dear! My dear girl, why do you not walk away? Yes, away from Science, my dear, my dear girl? Ah, my beautiful! Ah, my dear! Ah, my child! Oh dear, my dear!" Is the lyrics to the singing turrets
In Latin?
I think italian
I thought it was latin
@@skylanderlego4163 Italian
It's Italian and it's SO SAD OMG EOCEJDONCHDICDICHRJCIDJCBOEBCJR
"They don't make games like they did when Portal 2 came around"
Portal 2 was an amazing game, yes, but there was no game like Portal 2. There were no games made like this game.
Portal 1 and 2 set a standard I'm shocked to see is so rarely mimicked.
Not only did they have solid writing, by the standards of any medium, but they hardly compromised the gameplay to tell it. Portal 2 did "slightly" more than 1 to make it more cinematic, but ultimately the series never tried to be a movie with a game attached to it, like so many Naughty Dog-like titles do.
It was an excellent story told via a game.
@@Mayeur000Donz exactly. And the fact that it was a game meant you could interact with the whole environment, do everything that happened in the storyline _yourself,_ rather than watching it from a screen (if it was a movie)
@@jemzomaclain
If "show, don't tell" is the rule for movies, "do, don't show" is what game designers should take to heart.
@@Mayeur000Donz but portal was do *and* show in my opinion
@@jemzomaclain
Yeah, good point.
I guess the lesson to take is that visual language is still important, but if player involvement could make a difference, make sure you include it.
I'm reminded of the intro to Insomniac's Spiderman, which panned across Peter's apartment and flawlessly told us everything we needed to know.
My favorite line from glados was "put me in a po-tato"
The way she said that... just the pain in her voice...
@@pashasoofi30 YES. A PO-TA-TO.
Potat-OS
4:11 - 4:20
That specific progression tends to give me chills. So good.
That part and right when the elevator starts accelerating to the top hits me right in the feels.
That’s when I lose it and a tear streams down my face. this used to be my game man. best game i’ve ever played
@@benson2873 Can relate. Not with Portal specifically, but with other games, so the feeling is mutual :)
I remember using months on completing portal 2 the first time, but when i replayed it, i only used 2 hours...
Henrik Myrhaug Because u got better
At the game
Darth Elmo working on the fastest way to beat each level, strategy and practice my friend
I finished the game in like 6 hours, but that doesn't mean I did it in a single day
Idk, I finish Portal in 1 evening. First playthrough. Is Portal 2 much longer?
Every puzzle on my first play through, I felt the game telling me "Thiink aboout iiit"
I actually cried when I experienced the ending
me too. and goosebumps also.such a masterpiece
i first listend to this song as a child...... came back to this song after 7 years, all grown up..........i dont know why but i cant stop crying
im doing the same thing right now bro, i feel you, i remember listening to this so many long years ago, and now coming back older, i cant help but cry at this.
Love the way she say Potato for some reason lol (2:30)
well no shit
NO FUCKING SHIT MATE
I know that she was downloaded to a potato lol, I played the game from end to end. I meant that I liked her pronunciation of the word, and I can't explain why
same
POtAto
For anyone that came here for the Opera; It starts at 3:04
lol thx
i only liked the android orcsta
I played the whole game and I was sad Wheatley got thrown into space I cried so hard I cried just now and I'm so sad
I know right? The way he says "Grab me! Grabe me! Grab meeeeeee!" is just so heartbreaking, you know?
is the opera based off another song? i got my first accordion lately and was able to replicate the song almost. still working on it, but it sounds so cool with the alternating bass note of the accordion. Anyway ide like to figure out the real name of the song so i can listen and get better at it.
Thanks NASA for your contribution to such a great game
ikr
Yea
how NASA contributed to this Game
The earth pic at the moon
hmmmmmmm i see
i love how i never realized the OS in GLaDos means operating system just like ios and macos
it's in the name: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System
Why does “One day they woke me up... so I could live forever” give me so much chills 🥺
Love how they literally change your menu and music to Wheatley's fate at the end, just to twist the knife when you already feel bad for him.
Valve .... Make games again .....
Worel 01 they won’t be as good as this though, a lot of the writers left. Portal 2 is probably their last game
They make games, they just never finish them
@@WarDoctor42 That quote was bone chilling when he said it
WarDoctor42 it’s crazy that it’s actually true
Lol no
Cara Mia Addio is honestly one of my favourite tracks from the entire OST. The simple beeping of the turret quartet, who can actually be found in the game singing to the Opera Turret in a side area, (and if you look closely during the elevator rise, _every single turret_ is singing, even the sideways ones-but not the defective ones, they likely join in for the later bass notes), slowly shifting to a single turret as you rise into the main stage.
And then as the Opera Turret starts singing words, every turret _including the Animal King_ joins her. All of these small, bullet-filled machines sing you off as you finally get out of a mechanical factory hell. It's an absolutely lovely and cathartic ending to an amazing game. The companion cube shot up at the end, the very same one you got all the way back in 1 and had to throw into the fire to complete the level, the charred yet still intact friend that clearly went on its own adventure, it makes it even sweeter.
What a game. What a _series._ I'm still holding out hope for Portal 3, but if this really is the official chronological end for Valve's side of Portal (because c'mon, we got lots of fanmods to help expand the world a bit), this was a beautiful way to send it off.
I cryed at the end of the game, it was a struggle, and i wish they would make a portal 3, we want it so badly! the game was amazing, and has quite a bit of back story for a puzzle game, i thought it was just a puzzle game..
TGH-TheGamingHotDog same
TGH-TheGamingHotDog why do you think soo many people want portal 3 and half life 3 , the games are awesome
this comment is old but I get it sadly they won't, in the end with the portal opera, were all familiar with the it's not over until fat lady sings, that's what they were signifying, I doubt they'll make another portal
Valve can't count to 3.
I don't want a Portal 3, don't talk for me! The ending was perfect, and another game would simply ruin the ending Portal 2 gave.
I'm pretty sure that Chell is really outside, have you seen the video about the hardlight bridge in the room where the elevator arrives. The sun is shining on some fields, than you can look closer to one of the fields. It's a yellow/brown field ( It must be wheat) and there is little electric shed in the middle! And Chell steps out of an electric shed in the middle of a field at the ending! Real light is needed to create hardlight bridges, because GLaDOS says in the game that she pumps real sunlight up from the surface! So Chell is really outside at the ending.
bakstenen mandjes to find out the world was taken by the combine :v
The davis theory we don't talk about that
That and the fact that Valve said that GLaDOS uses robots instead of Chell in the co-op because she left Aperture.
Jjr
or dead
Without the turret opera, Harry101Uk would not exist.
Christopher Dibbs Thank you for pointing this out. We all love him.
ikr
He keeps this comunity and Portal alive , he is (nearly ) as great as glados .
4:55 i have some kind of mandela effect type of memory from the moment where Chell turns around i remember seeing The Citadel really far away on the background
I think I have seen photos of futuristic cities with a foreground of grains fields too, the movie Tomorrowland comes to my mind (though I'm not sure if that on itself is a mandela effect). If you ever saw one of those and knowing how Portal and Half Life are connected, it isn't weird to think you would link those two concepts. It would be a interesting reveal though, but maybe if it just looked like a indiscernible futuristic city.
U the only one lol
That's just you
the burnt companion cube is from portal 1! THAT CUBE WHERE YOU HAD TO BURN to pass the chamber ;----------------;
Yup.
the cube glados gave back qwq
yes
ThEnderYoshi HD
I saw that and was like "holy shit"
i think caroline wasnt just deleted, i think she is in that cube
2:32 potato 🥔
3:08 turret song 🎶
5:06 GLaDOS song 🎶
Thx so much
Ptg
*potato*
*elevator takes me to a floor where turrets are waiting for me*
Me: Well played Glados....I actually believed you.
*turrets start playing a song*
Me: 0-0 Thank you Glados... :)
yeah i was like she could have killed us at any time
My head cannon is that Caroline wasn’t deleted, she still lives on in the turrets somehow- so Glados tried to indirectly kill chell but Caroline prevented it
So it’s her mom singing to her (look up the English lyrics if you haven’t yet)
My jaw dropped and I just prepared to get shot.... HEY! if you turn on subtitles while the turrets are playing their lil song there’s lyrics in English
Happiness my canon is that Glados didn’t actually delete Caroline and created the turret opera as a final farewell message to Chell
Probably thought she would pull out some pullshit and just dodge it.
Honestly, this is one of the best endings to a video game that I've ever experienced. There is so much to unpack about the psychology behind GLaDOS' personality change, given that she's an AI with full sentience and has been sentenced to an eternity of isolation chasing the satisfaction of testing. Chell was the only thing that kept GLaDOS going, and I think she realized that in the end, what with Caroline's influence. I teared up when she told Chell to just leave but still sent her off with a beautiful aria. The passive nature of GLaDOS' sudden affection for Chell really sealed my love for her as both an antagonist and protagonist. I got chills when GLaDOS reached for Chell in space and dragged her back in, because I knew it wasn't for selfish purposes. It was a huge contrast to the ending to Portal 1 where Chell *did* escape, only to be yanked back into the facility for further testing.
I laugh-cried when she even chucked the companion cube out for Chell. It felt like both a sarcastic jab (what with how damaged it is) and a kind gesture that suggests she hopes Chell isn't lonely on her new journey. At least that's how I saw it.
It's pretty clear that this was Valve's last breath as a game developer. If this is the last true game of quality that we'll get from them, so be it. Portal 2 is by far one of my favorite games. Beautifully written, satisfyingly challenging and full of that signature Valve humor that I've loved so much.